Holding on to the Faith by Douglas A. Sweeney

Holding on to the Faith

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Traditional ways of living the Christian faith--shaped and guided by confessional norms--exhibit remarkable staying power in American religious life. Holding On to the Faith addresses issues related to the persistence of confessional forms of Christianity in the face of utilitarian, democratic, evangelical American popular religious culture. Whereas historians in the twentieth century typically used terms like "countervailing," "alternative," or "immigrant faith" to describe confessional Christianity, it is

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